“An extended musical family reunion” is the tagline Linford Detweiler provides for the Nowhere Else Festival, the Memorial Day weekend event he and wife, Karin Bergquist, have hosted for three years running.

Music is certainly a big part of Nowhere Else, which takes place on the couple’s 20-acre farm near Wilmington, Ohio, in Martinsville, about an hour’s drive from Cincinnati. This year’s lineup includes musical performances by singer-songwriters Loudon Wainwright III, his daughter Lucy Wainwright Roche, Mary Gauthier, Carrie Rodriguez and Peter Mulvey.

Local folk ensemble the Tillers is also playing, as is the husband-wife duo Birds of Chicago. Of course, Detweiler and Bergquist have a matrimonial musical act of their own, Over the Rhine, and will be performing three times: Saturday, Sunday and, for VIP ticket holders, Friday.

But there’s more than music going down on the farm. Detweiler and Bergquist have curated a collection of people working across a wide range of disciplines: photography, nonfiction writing, film and the culinary arts. Detweiler highlights a few details on Nowhere Else’s schedule apart from musical performance:

The barn, built in the 1870s that we are restoring, functions as the art gallery.(Photo: Provided)

“Mary Gauthier’s new album is written with wounded vets. She’s going to give a talk called ‘Music Heals’ and this whole idea of art and post-traumatic healing and how those two intersect.

“Loudon Wainwright is going to read from his memoir that came out last year.

“We’re having a film, an amazing documentary that we saw in Santa Fe on Hal Holbrook and his Mark Twain performances that he did for the last 60 years before he passed away. Scott Teems, the director and writer, is coming out and screening it.

Over the Rhine performs a concert at Nowhere Else.(Photo: Provided/Darrin Ballman Photography)

“Bradley Meinerding (Over The Rhine’s guitarist) does an open jam that’s become kind of a festival tradition where a lot of people bring their instruments. Brad knows hundreds of songs and people sort of gather around and listen, and real music starts getting made, and some pretty good musicians show up and play with him, and it’s been fun.

“The festival is Saturday and Sunday with a VIP ticket for Friday evening that includes a farm-to-table dinner by Todd Hudson from the Wildflower Café in Mason. He sources a lot of his food from the farmers in this area. He comes out and does a fabulous meal in the tent, and we play a little welcome concert that night.

“A local farmer, Jon Branstrator, who provides some of the farm-to-table food for the picnic and grows a lot of great food, is going to do a workshop on regenerative farming and compositing and growing food in your backyard.

Photo from Rodney Bursiel that will be exhibited in the historic barn.(Photo: Provided)

“There’s a local writer that we’ve really fallen in love with named John Baskin, who lives in Wilmington. He’s going to do a nonfiction writing workshop.

“(Cincinnati photographer) Michael Wilson meets everybody Sunday morning in Wilmington, and about two dozen people usually show up, and he talks about making pictures, and they can follow him around this little town, and they just make a bunch of pictures. To me, Michael was the first person we asked when we had the idea to do the festival. It just seemed to us that if Michael said ‘yes,’ we could have a music and arts festival, if he was like, ‘nah, I’m not into it,’ it probably wasn’t going to happen. He’s just one of the greats of our generation. He’s photographed dozens of American songwriters and musicians. Whatever that American treasure is called American music, he’s been a huge part of that world for the last 25 years. He’s been a mentor to Karin and I over the years. It just feels good to have him here.”

Tickets: 3-day pass $350; two-day pass $150; two-day pass for teens, college students and active military service personnel $45; single-day pass $90; single-day pass for teens, college students and active military service personnel $25.